Doctors appointment

I had a doctors appointment Yesterday. I am 19 weeks along, only one more week and I'll be half way there yea! The baby's heart sounds great and everything is good. This baby moves around so much, I think it will be a little swimmer. Its interesting how pregnancies can be so different from each other. I felt this baby move alot sooner then I did with Luke, that might be because this is my seconded and I know more what to look for. I have been feeling this baby move since I was three months along and it has been none stop ever since. This baby definitely has been moving alot more early on then Luke did though. Any way, In 2 weeks we will find out the sex of the baby, September 11th, I know weird day. I have added a poll on the right hand side so you can make your guess. If Alan and I have already told you what we thought we were having please don't let this influence your choice.

B-Day

In honor of Alan's birthday on Saturday I thought I would change the page back round for this week. Happy Birthday to my Niece Hannah! She turns seven Today.

New Posts

There are a few new posts, so keep scrolling till you get to the ones you have already read. I know sorry I need to post more frequently so this doesn't happen all the time. Also the cutie picture of the Chase family is thanks to my sister Rachel she had one with the link to the website on her blog, so thank you Rachel.

Mark is Coming!

I couldn't find a individual picture of Mark so this will have to do, Mark is the one on the end on the right. Mark is flying in from St Louis to visit us next week. We are so excited! He will be here from Friday till Wednesday. We Plan on going to the Gulf of Mexico Monday and Tuesday. We are going to have so much fun.

I Do it!

On Monday morning Luke asked for a Peanut butter and Jelly Sandwich for breakfast which was better then the cookie he was asking for previously, so I said okay. As I started to pull everything out, Luke was pulling a chair in from our dining room so he could help me. Luke is really good about helping and lately he has gotten in to this faze were he wants to do ever thing himself, he'll say I do it.

A week long saga

Yes you are looking at what you think you are looking at, that is our ceiling. A week ago on Friday afternoon I sat down to watch a movie and heard this plunk, plunk noise. I got up to find where the noise was coming from. I went into the hall way and looked up and this is what I saw, Well it wasn't this bad. There was only about an inch crack in the ceiling and it was dripping water from three different spots. I thought to my self, oh man the maintenance man just left, he was here to fix another problem. I called the management office at about one, I explained to them the problem and they said they would put in a work order and someone would came look at it. When Alan got home at about 4:30 or 5 no one had come yet, so he called. No one came that day or Saturday and they have Sundays off. The pictures are what we saw on Monday, the crack had grown to a foot long, the water was now dripping from different places and the ceiling was now bowing from obvious water damage. I called again and tried to explain that this wasn't a simple work order that some one needed to come today, she said she would see what she could do. No one came that day or on Tuesday. So on Wednesday I decided to address them in person I walked up to the office at about 10:00. I told one of the Ladies the problem, she said really, I am so sorry about that, the maintenance men have been behind on work and their first priorities have been to fix the Ac's, but she will differently have some one come look at our problem that day. About 5 minutes after I got back some one did come by. He checked the ceiling, said it was coming from the apartment above us and he went up to go see what the problem was. The people above us had moved out about 2 weeks ago and apparently the water hook ups for the washer had been left on. The floor in that apartment had soaked up as much water as it could and then our ceiling started taking the damage. He turned the water off and said he would send some one out fix the ceiling. no one has been out yet, but at least there is no more water dripping.

Our dancing Luke

Here are some cute videos of Luke dancing to High school Musical 2. Luke is our music boy, he loves dancing and singing. He will some times pretend he has a radio and will turn it on and make us sing for him so he can dance.

Wii Surgery

We bought a Wii a while back when we were still in Rexburg. We had alot of fun with it until just about a month before we left Rexburg Luke figured our how to put things through the opening were the games go. He put a quarter and a business card through the opening. Alan was able to get the quarter out, but not the business card, for that he would need a three winged screwdriver that he would need to buy off of the Internet. Since Alan was busy trying to graduate he decided to wait till we got to Texas. Last week he bought the screwdriver off of eBay and this past Sunday he began Wii surgery.

And the findings were? There was the business card, blocking access to the laser that reads the games. Alan took the business card out, put the Wii back together and the verdict?

A Wii that works as good as new, as far as we can tell.

New ward

Its official, Sunday was our first Sunday in our new ward the San Antonio 2nd ward. Our old ward the San Antonio 8th ward split on August 3. I am not thrilled about this, in fact I am very upset. I had finely got comfortable in our ward and had made some friends. Luke was at the point where we could probably leave him in nursery by him self. Now we have to start all over again with him. It's not a complete new ward because we are lucky and some of our friends from the other ward transferred over with us. I am especially happy that our good friends the Eddington's transferred with us. Even though we still have some of our friends, on Sunday As I was sitting in church during sacrament meeting looking around at all the new faces, I couldn't stop my self from crying, maybe its the pregnancy maybe not who knows. I think it's going to take me a while to get adjusted.

Blog list

I have added a blog list to our blog. If you see your name on the list and didn't want us viewing your blog just e-mail me and I will kindly take it off. If you don't see your name on the list and you have a blog that you would like us to visit just e-mail me and I will gladly add it.

The picture game

I have been tagged by my sister-in-law Kristi to play the picture game. Here are the rules of the game. This is how the game works...For each question, look up the answer in a Google Image search. Then choose your favorite image from the first page of results only. You get some fun and often CRYPTIC answers. I'm not going to tag any one, but it would be fun to see some of your answers. If you want to know the meaning of some of my pictures just make a comment or e-mail me. Here it goes.

My age

A place I would like to visit

My favorite object

My favorite animal

My favorite color


The town where I live


A past pet

A past love

My best friends Nickname



My screen name

My first name

My middle name


My last name
One of my bad habits




My first job

My college degree

What I am doing right now

WARNING!

I went way over board on my postings and they are very long.

Read at you own risk.

Friday Twilight Paty

You probably noticed that I left a day out of the week and if you didn't then you need to re-learn the days of the week. I did this because other then finding out on Sunday that we might not be in our ward any more Friday was our most eventful day of the week.

I'll try to make this story short. When Alan started at USAA there was a few other guys that started with him from BYU-Idaho. Alan and this group of guys usually eat lunch with each other along with other BYU-I guys that graduated before them. One of the guys that graduated before them named Jamie asked the rest of them if their wives were into this series of books called Twilight and all of them of course answered yes. Jamie's wife was planning a Twilight party for the night August 1st the night before the new book was to be released. Morgan, his wife had given him enough invitations for all of the wives of the BYU-I guys. She had invited us along with some girls from her ward. Morgan was kicking Jamie and their two kids out of the house, so I told Alan to invite them over to our house. The night turned out to be a guys night with the kids at our house and a girls night out at Morgans house.

Jamie, his 2 kids and Colin came over to our house it was supposed to be more guys but the rest couldn't come. Just on a side note I have to tell a cute story about Luke. We had to set up our pack and play in our room for Jamie's 10 month old son so he could sleep. We told Luke that a baby was coming over and was going to sleep in this crib. He got so excited. He couldn't stop talking about the baby. Alan told me that when they came Luke just started patting the babies head and talking to the baby. The baby woke up once while they were their and Luke tried to run to our room so he could comfort the baby. I hope that this is a good sign that Luke will love our new baby. My friend Laura ( pronounced Loud-a because she is from Costa Rica) Colin's wife and I got picked up at 7:30 that night by my other friends Lindsay and Audrey. We picked up one more girl Allie and arrived at Morgan's house at 8:00. We had alot of fun. We ate really good food, played Twilight Cranium that Morgan had made up, watched trailers of the movie coming out in December and talked about the books. At around 11:30 we left to go check out the line of people that were waiting at Barnes and Noble to get their copy of the new book at midnight. It was crazy, there was about 200 to maybe 300 people waiting in line. Two of my friends wanted to buy the book that night so they got in line. We thought it would take for ever but once it turned midnight that line got shorter and shorter real fast. That night we got home at about 1 in the morning, but it was so worth it.

Thursday, Saturday & Sunday

On Thursday I took Luke to our ward play group. This time it was at a local McDonald's. I think this is kind of weird because I feel like if you're not going to buy anything you probably shouldn't go and play on their toys, but some people did buy stuff, like us and others didn't so I guess it was okay. There was this statue of Ronald McDonald sitting on a bench and Luke was so scared of it. I tried to get him to sit next to him and he was like no, no, until we had to go home. Luke wanted me to take a picture of him so bad that I actually got him to sit down on the bench next to it. I also went to another doctors appointment. Everything is going well. I heard the baby's heart beat for the first time. Oh it sounded so sweet. On Saturday we went and saw WALL-E. Luke did really good till about the last 10-15 minutes and then Alan had to take him out, it was kind of understandable because there wasn't alot of action or talking in the movie, so that probably wasn't very fun for Luke. We thought the movie was okay, but not something we would want to own, after the movie we went to the Olive Garden, it was so good. On Sunday they made an official announcement in our ward that they were going to re-align the ward bounders of our ward and 3 others. This rumor had been going around since the first month we moved into the ward, but its official now. I knew we were probably not going to be in the ward any more just because of where our apartment is located. After church we went to our friends the Wilson's house for dinner, they're really our family away from family here in Texas, but that's another story. Brother Wilson is the ward mission leader and he told us that he heard from a very good source that we were officially no longer in the ward. We asked him how sure was he and he said based on his source 98%. We were suppose to go to a meeting that night to find out, but Alan didn't want to go, so instead we went to our friends house that are in our ward and played games. This week I will have to call the Wilson's and ask what the verdict is.

Our busy week

Before I update you on all of our fun adventures last week I just have to say it, Breaking Dawn is here! I am so excited! The fourth book of the twilight series by Stephenie Meyer came out on Saturday. I pre ordered my copy from Amazon so I don't get it till today and this time I promise I won't neglect Luke. Yea! Anyway, so about our week. There is this movie theater near us that shows free kid movies on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I know how great is that. The movies are ones that have already been out on DVD, but its still fun for the kids to go and have the movie theater experience. On Tuesday we saw Alvin and the Chipmunks, Luke loved the music and the chipmunks, he is getting alot better about actually siting and watching the movies. On Wednesday I was going to take Luke to the other free movie they were showing, but that didn't really work out. Lately Luke has been having a hard time with Alan going to work in the mornings. We can usually calm him down if we walk Alan part way to work, but on Wednesday we couldn't because I wasn't feeling good. The minute Alan walked out the door at 7:45 Luke just started balling, he was laying next to the door calling Daddy, Daddy. He cried like that from 7:45 to about 9:15 or 9:30. He wouldn't let me get him dressed or anything, I really couldn't even touch him. The movie started at 10:00, so we ended up not going. He did finally calm down I think only because he was hungry. We haven't had that happen again, well not to that extent. I'm glad Luke loves his dad.